See you at ApacheCon on Friday!
14% HTTP/2 thanks to nginx ?
Brotli everywhere! Firefox, libbrotli
The –libcurl flaw is fixed (and it was GONE from github for a few hours)
No, the cheat sheet cannot be in the man page. But…
bug of the week: the http/2 performance fix
option of the week: -k
Talking at the GOTO Conference next week
Episode 41, just out:
http2 explained in markdown, translations. Swedish?
curl feature freeze period, release october 7
Bug of the week: Downloading a long sequence of URLs results in high CPU usage and slowness
Option of the week: -O
My series of weekly videos, in lack of a better name called daniel weekly, reached episode 35 today. I’m celebrating this fact by also adding an RSS-feed for those of you who prefer to listen to me in an audio-only version.
As an avid podcast listener myself, I can certainly see how this will be a better fit to some. Most of these videos are just me talking anyway so losing the visual shouldn’t be much of a problem.
I talk about what I work on in my open source projects, which means a lot of curl stuff and occasional stuff from my work on Firefox for Mozilla. I also tend to mention events I attend and HTTP/networking developments I find interesting and grab my attention. Lots of HTTP/2 talk for example. I only ever express my own personal opinions.
It is generally an extremely geeky and technical video series.
Every week I mention a (curl) “bug of the week” that allows me to joke or rant about the bug in question or just mention what it is about. In episode 31 I started my “command line options of the week” series in which I explain one or a few curl command line options with some amount of detail. There are over 170 options so the series is bound to continue for a while. I’ve explained ten options so far.
I’ve set a limit for myself and I make an effort to keep the episodes shorter than 20 minutes. I’ve not succeed every time.
The 35 episodes have been viewed over 17,000 times in total. Episode two is the most watched individual one with almost 1,500 views.
Right now, my channel has 190 subscribers.
The top-3 countries that watch my videos: USA, Sweden and UK.
Share of viewers that are female: 3.7%
Today I hesitated to make my new weekly video episode. I looked at the viewers number and how they basically have dwindled the last few weeks. I’m not making this video series interesting enough for a very large crowd of people. I’m re-evaluating if I should do them at all, or if I can do something to spice them up…
… or perhaps just not look at the viewers numbers at all and just do what think is fun?
I decided I’ll go with the latter for now. After all, I enjoy making these and they usually give me some interesting feedback and discussions even if the numbers are really low. What good is a number anyway?
This week’s episode:
Personal
Firefox
Fun
HTTP/2
TALKS
curl
wget
I won’t keep posting every video update here, but I mostly wanted to mention that I’ve kept posting a weekly video over at youtube basically explaining what’s going on right now within my dearest projects. Mostly curl and some Firefox stuff.
This week: libcurl server cert verification API got a bashing at SEC-T, is HTTP for UDP a good idea? How about adding HTTP cache support to libcurl? HTTP/2 is getting deployed as we speak. Interesting curl bug when used by XBMC. The patch series for Firefox bug 939318 is improving slowly – will it ever land?
I decided to try to do a short video about my current work right now and make it available for you all. I try to keep it short (5-7 minutes) and I’m certainly no pro at it, but I will try to make a weekly one for a while and see if it gets any fun. I’m going to read your comments and responses to this very eagerly and that will help me decide how I will proceed on this experiment.
Enjoy.